z/OS Facilities

LENGTH OF COURSE:
 4 Days

DESCRIPTION: This course introduces the student to the facilities and components that make up an OS/390 system. The course teaches how these facilities and components interact with one another and with subsystems such as the Job Entry Subsystem.

PREREQUISITES: OS/390 System Overview course or equivalent experience.

INSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES: A combination of Lecture and Case Studies. Case Studies include: SVC Dumps, Trace Records, LOGREC Records, and IOS Subsystem analysis.

AUDIENCE

System Programmers, Operations Technicians, and Application Programmers.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Describe the characteristics of an OS/390 System including major hardware and software components
  • Explain how virtual, central, and auxiliary storage are managed by OS/390
    • Paging
    • Swapping
  • Identify the sequence of events that occur during the initialization of the OS/390 System
    • Master Subsystem
    • Primary Subsystem
    • Secondary Subsystems
    • Applications
  • Trace the flow of a JOB through the OS/390 System
  • Identify the system services required to support a task such as dispatching, processing interrupts, and
  • serializing resources
  • Describe the role of software and hardware components involved in the transfer of data between the
  • central storage and an I/O device
    • Channel Paths
    • Channel Subsystem


  • Describe the storage management functions such as catalog processing, DASD Volume Organization, and allocation processing
  • Identify the tools that are available to aid in problem identification and analysis
    • IPCS
    • GTF
    • Traces
  • Describe how TSO, CICS/TS, and IMS work with OS/390
  • Describe SYSPLEX management
    • SYSPLEX Timers
    • JES Coupling Facility
    • Workload Management
    • Security Management
    • Problem Management
    • Operations Management


FROM OUR STUDENT EVALUATIONS...
"Instructor has a passionate interest in his topic and kept the class interesting."

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